README.md

Welcome to Panopticon

The GOV.UK content platform has been built with a focus on tools over content.
That is manifest in the existence of numerous small applications that provide
focussed solutions to specific user needs, or offer a suite of similar but
distinct solutions; alongside the 'publisher/frontend' editorial tools there
are apps like 'smart answers', 'planners', and so on.

To bring that all together as a single site a single interface was required
to attach consistent metadata to the pieces, connect them together as 'related
items' and generally have a complete overview of all the solutions/artefacts in
the system. That's this app: Panopticon.

Interfaces

Panopticon provides:

an admin UI where items can be created and their metadata
edited. This is authenticated in conjunction with sign-on-o-tron.

a writeable API where applications can register the content
they provide. This is authenticated using HTTP Basic.